The workshop is a first attempt to investigate the impact of urban space on prayer practices and related religious thought and belief in antiquity. Possible areas of enquiry include the following:

(1) How do religious groups embed themselves within the topography of a city? How do they deal with and support the religious diversity of a city, and to what extent are they affected by such diversity? To what extent do these groups, and particularly readers within them, communicate new ideas designed to cope with the city environment? The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem might be an example: religious groups had to compensate for their loss by creating new imaginaires of the city and its sacred places, which in turn affected worship strategies, the formation of belief, etc.

(2) According to urban sociologists, both diversity and density in the various spaces of a city lead to interaction and exchange among religious groups or networks and enlarge the scale of personal religious choices. We would like to investigate the city as a melting pot impinging on practices and beliefs that in turn affect the ways of prayer. Conceptual tools to that end might include de Certeau’s concept of appropriation, or relevant notions of intersubjectivity and negotiation.

(3) Another interest might be the formation of normative discourses. As indicated in a) and b), city spaces as spaces of creative action give rise to new practices that in turn evoke new imaginaires. Such practices and their corresponding imaginaires are highly contested. The competing imaginaires, whether in narrative or dramatic form, images or architecture, evoke processes of grouping and differentiation that involve the negotiation of spatial imagining, and sometimes lead to open conflicts. Here we think for example of philosophers and church fathers, who provided alternative ways of using city spaces with implications for new forms of prayer or belief supporting the formation of a non-diverse group in a city of diversity.

We encourage doctoral students and postdocs to present their research in short pre-circulated papers.

Any topic on the theme “Prayer and the Ancient City: Influences of Urban Space” is welcome. The language of the conference is English. If you are a doctoral student or a postdoc and would like to contribute a written text to the conference, contact Maik Patzelt at Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!. Include your name, current position, and an abstract of no more than one page, including sources and a short bibliography, by September 09, 2018. If your proposal is accepted, we will provide for your accommodation in Halle and travel expenses.

"Hellenic Political Philosophy and Contemporary Europe", to be held in Herceg Novi (Montenegro), from 29 September to 04 October 2019.

The Conference is of an interdisciplinary character, and aims at addressing different social and political issues from perspectives of history, philosophy, economics, theology, history of ideas, anthropology, political theory and other disciplines. Such conception of the scholarly exchange does not fulfill only the purpose of an historical investigation, but will provide a systematic treatment of the topic, thus clarifying existing ideas and advancing new ones. We welcome papers on topics like

Abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted by 1 March 2019, via the registration form, or sent by email to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!

For more information please visit the website: http://ichs.me which will be constantly updated with new information.

Best regards,

Dr. Filip Ivanović

Executive Director | Center for Hellenic Studies

Ivana Vujoševića 19, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

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15th FIEC Congress 2019 Revised Call for Panels and Posters

Montag, 04. Juni 2018

4-8 July, 2019 London

his is a revised call responding to feedback we were glad to receive from many individuals and organizations following our earlier notice. Please note that among other changes the date for submissions is now 1st September 2018 and we now welcome proposals for all-women panels. Further details of the conference, including details of conference fees, venues, keynote lectures and excursions, the conference code of conduct and details of how to book, will be available in the autumn from the conference website which is under construction.

The 15th annual conference of the International Federation of Associations of Classical Associations / Fédération Internationale des Associations d’Études Classiques (FIEC) will take place in conjunction with the 2019 Classical Association Annual conference on 4th-8th July 2019 in the Institute of Education (UCL) in Bloomsbury London. FIEC business meetings will take place on 4th July, and the conference proper will begin on 5th July. We expect hundreds of classicists from all over the world and at any stage in their career to attend, to hear plenary lectures from international leaders in our field, to present and hear papers, to participate in debates and discussions and to take part in cultural activities and workshops.

The Programme Committee is now inviting proposals for panels and posters.

Each panel will be of 2 hours duration. We anticipate that many panels will consist of 4 short papers united by a common theme. We also invite proposals for panels and workshops in different formats, so long as they fit within a 2 hour block to facilitate timetabling.

The Programme Committee aims to select a range of panels that reflects the breadth of traditional and non-traditional classics, including but not limited to Greek and Latin literatures of all periods, linguistics, ancient history in its widest sense, philosophy and religion, art and archaeology, Neo-Latin and Byzantine studies, and the past and current reception of the classics in all media and in different cultures and traditions. We also welcome panels drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary studies. We anticipate there will be panels discussing national traditions in classical research and that some panels will deal with non-Greek peoples such as Etruscans, Persians and Phoenicians. We especially encourage panels dealing with pedagogy and outreach.

Our principle criterion of selection will be academic quality. But we are also keen to create a programme that reflects the full variety of our subject and the diversity of those who study and teach it.

It is the tradition of both FIEC and the Classical Association to represent as wide a range of speakers as possible. Panels are more likely to be selected if they include speakers from more than one country, and if they include junior as well as senior speakers. Panels consisting only FIEC / CA 2019 4th – 8th July 2019 London

of men are unlikely to be selected unless a powerful case is made for an exception. Following feedback and discussion we accept that we were wrong to initially discourage all women panels.

We also accept that not all participants are comfortable with binary categories. We seek to be as flexible and inclusive as possible in relation to gender identity. We invite any potential participant who wishes to contact the Programme Committee Chair (Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!) in confidence about this.

Each panel proposal should include a title for the session, the names and affiliations of all speakers, and a 150 word abstract for each paper and for the panel as a whole. The deadline for proposals is 1st September 2018. They should be sent to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!. One named person should be the proposer and should provide a contact e-mail. It is not necessary that she or he be the chair of the panel, but if not then the name of the chair should be indicated in the proposal. If the proposal is for a very different format to a multi-speaker panel, the proposer is strongly encouraged to contact the Programme Committee as far in advance as possible.

The Programme Committee expects to make its selections in early autumn/Fall. It may contact proposers for clarification or to suggest changes to proposals during this period. Its decisions will be final.

The Programme Committee also invites proposals for posters. Posters may present individual or collaborative projects, and scholars of all career stages are encourage to apply. Proposals for posters should also be sent to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! by the 1st September and selection will take place on the same time scale as for panels. Proposals for posters should include a 150 word description of the subject and the name and contact details of the poster presenter. We consider posters an excellent way for individuals whose work does not fit into panels to participate, and we particularly welcome proposals from those not usually able to participate in international conferences.

Once proposals for panels or posters are accepted we will be glad to issue formal invitations for those who need them either to satisfy institutional regulations or visa requirements. We aim to have all this completed by 1st December 2018 and earlier if possible.

Please note that we are not inviting proposals for individual papers.

Details of any student bursaries will also be published in due course on the conference website, along with suggestions for accommodation and cultural attractions. Attendees, including those giving papers in panels, and/or presenting posters, will need to make pay their own travel and accommodation costs given the large number of delegates and speakers expected.